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Man admits murder and mosque blasts Mohammed Saleem stabbing: Man admits murder and mosque blasts
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A man has admitted murdering an 82-year-old as he walked home from a mosque in Birmingham. A Ukrainian student has admitted murdering an 82-year-old man who was walking home from a Birmingham mosque.
Mohammed Saleem was stabbed in Green Lane, Small Heath, on 29 April. Mohammed Saleem was stabbed by Pavlo Lapshyn in Small Heath on 29 April, less than a week after Lapshyn had arrived in the UK.
At the Old Bailey, Pavlo Lapshyn, 25, pleaded guilty to murder, as well as plotting to cause explosions near mosques in Walsall, Tipton and Wolverhampton in June and July. At the Old Bailey, 25-year-old Lapshyn pleaded guilty to murder, as well as plotting to cause explosions near mosques in Walsall, Tipton and Wolverhampton in June and July.
Lapshyn, a postgraduate student from Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, is due to be sentenced on Friday. He will be sentenced on Friday.
He was living in Birmingham while on a temporary work placement in the city, and had been in the country less than a week when he killed Mr Saleem. The postgraduate student, from Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, was living in Birmingham while on a temporary work placement in the city when he killed Mr Saleem.
The grandfather of 22 was taken to the city's Heartlands Hospital, but was confirmed dead shortly after arriving. 'Shrapnel and nails'
Lapshyn was arrested almost a week after an explosion near the Kanzul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton on 12 July. The grandfather of 22 had been attending prayers at the Small Heath mosque and was just yards away from his home when he was stabbed three times.
Later, Lapshyn planted three bombs near three mosques in the West Midlands as part of a campaign he said was motivated by racial hatred.
He was arrested almost a week after an explosion near the Kanzul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton on 12 July.
Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale described Lapshyn as a "self-starter" who would have been likely to go on to commit further offences.
"He was motivated through what he had learnt himself - he was operating alone and not part of wider group," he said.
"He is an evil and ill-informed man, he was extremely dangerous.
"His motivation was that the white man was better than anyone else."
Det Supt Shaun Edwards, from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "We found part-made devices in Lapshyn's room plus chemicals and bomb-making equipment, so it is clear he planned to place further devices with the intention of killing or maiming innocent members of the public.
"All three of the devices he detonated were powerful but his final attack in Tipton was the first to feature shrapnel and nails.
"He placed this near the mosque's car park with the intention of hitting worshippers as they arrived for prayers.
"Thankfully, the service had been put back an hour so the mosque was largely deserted when the bomb went off."
He said that during interviews Lapshyn had been keen to take credit for the attacks.